PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Back in 2008, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison had one of history’s less insightful comments on the future of cloud computing, something he likened at the time to a fad. Solving Their Problem By Solving Social Media’s Problem. A fad he mostly didn’t really get. Or at least the power behind some coolness.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. It’s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. It’s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based But the firm had operational difficulties, and after a few rounds of layoffs, the firm officially closed down operations everywhere except its home city of San Francisco in 2015.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In many cases, one of the most significant operational risks organizations face today doesn’t come from fraudsters or cybercriminals—it comes from their own employees. While the 2008 foreclosure crisis highlighted conduct risk issues, the problem didn’t end there. Watch the video.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. until 2008, which put a damper on the functionality of the first-generation tablet. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss .

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FICO

JUNE 22, 2017

At the time, Madoff had been running an elaborate Ponzi scheme through the wealth management arm of his business that reached $65 million by the time of his arrest in 2008, deliberately hiding the money intricately within the financial system. Innovating AML tools has increasingly become a priority for banks and financial institutions.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: Sep 29, 2008. Date: July 1, 2008. Price: $7.9B.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Formed in 2008; is the connection to a web site a human or a bot? Silver 6 operates as Software as a Service (SaaS), so that means no IT and no infrastructure required. ^SR. Blake Wood (SVP & Director, Program Innovation). Today, we’ll hear 7-minute lightening demos from some of the most innovative companies.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

But what Solyndra’s investors and the government didn’t see — or didn’t understand the importance of — was that the price of polysilicon was on the decline as early as 2008. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. David Carr (Innovation Manager). The account has a tie into social media and sharing. Can also set geographic limits on who can invest. ^SR.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

State of Innovation Report. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Many are still in wide usage today. Efficiency of marketing spend and ad targeting.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. By 2008, The Point was struggling. Both Lefkofsky (with Groupon) and Kleiner Perkins (with Cerent) were able to win so big in part because they had hands-on operational roles in their investments.

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